Dishearten, daunt, disparage, overawe, deject, depress. Hope this helps!
The poem being identified here is : <span>to the doctor who treated the raped baby and who felt such despair
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<span>It is raising a note and upholding a certain emotion of disgust to the doctor's behavior. This is achieved by the speaker's tone, use of words and the ethos. Moreover, ethos speaks of the character's credibility or the persuader's credibility of what he or she is asserting and positing, is it strong and bold or just a mere existent elaboration. Thus follows the characteristics on tone, logos and pathos. Ethos is one key to trusting since it presents one's consistency and as a reliable speaker. </span>
Answer:
It looks like a simile is used, "dry as a biscuit,". It's comparing how dry something is to how dry a biscuit is.
I'm not sure about the rest, because I don't have context clues, but it looks like that's the only figurative language.
